Million-dollar lawsuit filed against runaway Lake Worth attorney

The lawsuits continue to mount against Lake Worth attorney Timothy McCabe, who went on the lam in April with as much as $8 million in client money.

Former client, and decades-long friend, Marie Pupke filed the most recent complaint in federal court this week alleging McCabe operated a Ponzi scheme that cost her about $1.2 million.

Pupke’s suit also goes after Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., which she says was complicit in the alleged fraud.

According to the lawsuit, Old Republic revoked the authority of McCabe’s law firm from acting as its agent in October _ six months before McCabe disappeared.

“It is believed and averred that Old Republic aided and abetted McCabe’s scheme by deliberately ignoring its own internal operating procedure designed specifically to protect the public from fraud and Ponzi schemes,” the lawsuit states.

Also named in the lawsuit is TD Bank, McCabe’s former partner, Steve Samiljan, and employees Phillip Ruffolo, Evie Jo Nagorka, Elizabeth Beltran and Cheryl Berry.